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AIMBE Fellowbook collects news stories highlighting the members of the AIMBE College of Fellows. Read the latest stories, jump to the College Directory, or search below to find the newest research, awards, announcements and more for the leaders of the medical and biological engineering community.
Synthetic Biology Empowers Farmers with Cutting-Edge Crop Diagnostics
Julius Lucks | Via Northwestern University | September 24, 2024Northwestern Engineering’s Julius B. Lucks understands the value of lab work. As a professor of chemical and biological engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering and codirector of the Center for Synthetic Biology (CSB), Lucks and his lab investigate the molecular principles that enable biological systems to sense and adapt to changing environments. They then […]
Space travel disrupts normal rhythm in heart cells
Deok-Ho Kim | Via Cardiovascular Business | September 24, 2024Heart tissue samples that spent 30 days at the International Space Station (ISS) showed low gravity conditions in space weakened the tissues and disrupted their normal rhythmic beats when compared to earth-bound samples from the same source. The finding has implications for the cardiac health of astronauts on long duration space flights. Johns Hopkins Medicine […]
Surgeons Harness AI to Boost Patient Outcomes
Yuman Fong | Via City of Hope | September 23, 2024City of Hope physicians are using artificial intelligence algorithms to help them choose the best candidates for procedures, predict and prevent possible complications, remotely monitor patients’ health status and more With recent leaps in artificial intelligence, more and more attention is being devoted to algorithms and their effect on society. But beyond chatbots, image generators, […]
The broken healthcare system and can nano medicine, virtual healthcare correct it?
Thomas Webster | Via YouTube | September 22, 2024“Why Healthcare is Broken & is Nano Medicine, personalized healthcare the answer? ” Thomas J. Webster’s degrees are in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh & in biomedical engineering from RPI. He has served as a professor at Purdue , Brown , and Northeastern serving as Chemical Engineering Department Chair from Universities and has […]
Congratulations to the recipient of the 2024 Dickson Prize in Science, Dr. Gilda A. Barabino.
Gilda Barabino | Via Carnegie Mellon University | September 19, 2024Dr. Barabino is the president of Olin College of Engineering, as well as a professor of biomedical and chemical engineering with a broad interest in global health and interdisciplinary engineering education and research. Her seminal research in sickle cell disease and orthopedic tissue engineering informed current technologies and formed the basis for novel therapies. A […]
New ventilator-on-a-chip model enables real-time detection of lung injury at cellular level
Samir Ghadiali | Via Medical Xpress | September 19, 2024For the first time, scientists are able to directly compare the different kinds of injury that mechanical ventilation causes to cells in the lungs. In a new study, using a ventilator-on-a-chip model developed at The Ohio State University, researchers found that shear stress from the collapse and reopening of the air sacs is the most […]
This screen stores and displays encrypted images without electronics
Joerg Lahann | Via University of Michigan | September 16, 2024It uses magnetic fields to display images at the same resolution as a squid’s color-changing skin A flexible screen inspired, in part, by squid can store and display encrypted images like a computer—using magnetic fields rather than electronics. The research is reported in Advanced Materials by University of Michigan engineers. “It’s one of the first […]
Bloodstream Infections from Combat Injuries Focus of DARPA-Funded Prophylactic Approach
Samir Mitragotri | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | September 16, 2024Bloodstream infections (BSIs) can be uniquely challenging in trauma victims who are affected by burn and blast injuries—and this is particularly true for fungal infections. DARPA’s (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) new SHIELD (Synthetic Hemo-technologies to Locate and Disinfect) program is honing in on this issue, with an aim to develop a prophylactic treatment that […]
Automated tuning of large-scale neuronal models
Byron Yu | Via Carnegie Mellon University | September 16, 2024An interdisciplinary group of researchers primarily based at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh presents a novel framework, Spiking Network Optimization using Population Statistics, that can quickly and accurately customize models that reproduce activity to mimic what’s observed in the brain. Developing large-scale neural network models that mimic the brain’s activity is a […]
Researchers find facemask impacts are leading source of higher severity impacts in professional American football
Kristy Arbogast | Via EurekAlert | September 11, 2024Nearly one third of concussions in professional American football are due to impacts from the facemask, a part of the helmet that has remained mostly unchanged in the last decade. In a new study presented at the International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury conference today, researchers used data collected from instrumented mouthpieces worn by […]
How space became a place for the study of aging
Joseph Wu | Via Stanford University | September 6, 2024Since the first astronauts spent time in space, scientists have known that space travel affects the human body in strange ways. Muscle and bone mass decrease; telomeres, the protective end caps on chromosomes, shorten; and the risk of conditions usually associated with old age, such as cancers, cataracts and cardiovascular disease, ticks up. Why the […]
Battling chronic pain with noninvasive focused ultrasound
Bin He | Via Carnegie Mellon University | September 5, 2024Chronic pain impacts an estimated 20 percent of the world population and persists as a frustrating symptom for innumerable health issues, from sickle-cell disease to arthritis. As part of his lab’s committed focus to improving noninvasive technology solutions for human health, Bin He of Carnegie Mellon University is developing noninvasive neuromodulation strategies to serve as […]
AI tool maps out cell metabolism with precision
Vassily Hatzimanikatis | Via Phys.org | August 30, 2024Understanding how cells process nutrients and produce energy—collectively known as metabolism—is essential in biology. Modern biology generates large datasets on various cellular activities, but integrating and analyzing the vast amounts of data on cellular processes to determine metabolic states is a complex task. Kinetic models offer a way to decode this complexity by providing mathematical […]
Amazing Alzheimer’s drug could stop time inside emergency medical patients
Donald Ingber | Via StudyFinds | August 22, 2024In the race against time that often defines emergency medicine, scientists have made a breakthrough that sounds like science fiction: they’ve found a way to slow down life itself. Researchers at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have discovered that a common Alzheimer’s drug can send the body into a state of “suspended […]
Toll-Like Receptor Nanoparticle Adjuvants Drive Vaccine Response
Eric Appel | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | August 21, 2024Toll-like receptor (TLR) and saponin adjuvants have each improved vaccine potency and safety. Now, researchers at Stanford University report that combining them in a nanoparticle format improves not only potency, but also durability, target breadth, and degree of virus neutralization. A modular approach makes it possible to fine-tune adjuvants by mixing and matching saponin nanoparticles […]
Tiny killers: How autoantibodies attack the heart in lupus patients
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic | Via EurekAlert | August 20, 2024Columbia team engineers a model of the human heart tissue that demonstrates how autoantibodies directly affect heart disease in lupus patients Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in patients suffering from lupus, an autoimmune disease in which our immune system attacks our own tissues and organs, the heart, blood, lung, joints, brain, and […]
‘Startling Advance’ in Designer Proteins Opens a World of Possibility for Biotech
David Baker | Via Singularity Hub | August 16, 2024Proteins are a bit like lights in your house. They have a job to do, and getting them to do it involves switching them on and off with other proteins or molecules. But it’s much easier to flip the switch on a light. In the body, billions of years of evolution have generated a complex […]
UA Professor at the Cutting-Edge of Medicine Design
Ravi Kumar | Via University of Alabama | August 13, 2024Dr. M.N.V. Ravi Kumar, Distinguished University Research Professor with The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences, is a world-renowned voice in the field of translational science for medicine design. His groundbreaking drug delivery systems have been shown to make more efficacious pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals. Kumar’s passion for bringing together multiple health disciplines to […]
Tick-borne red meat allergy prevented in mice through new nanoparticle treatment
Lonnie Shea | Via University of Michigan | August 12, 2024Nanoparticles delivered intravenously in mice can block the allergic reactions to red meat caused by the bite of the lone star tick, new research led by the University of Michigan shows. The condition, called alpha-gal syndrome, is on the rise in humans as climate change and other factors have led the ticks to expand their […]
Delivery of stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s safe in primate trial
Marina Emborg | Via Parkinsons News Today | August 2, 2024Transplant approach to delivering therapy feasible, study say A transplant approach used to deliver ANPD001, an investigational stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease, to the brain was found to be safe and feasible in non-human primates. Data from these preclinical studies supported developer Aspen Neuroscience’s successful application to U.S. regulators seeking to launch a first-in-human […]